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Hacker News (Feb 2025)

  1. F8 – an 8 bit architecture designed for C and memory efficiency [video]

    76 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  2. Reasons Not to Refactor

    76 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  3. How does fentanyl get into the US?

    76 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  4. Of Course It's a Coup

    76 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  5. Apple Intelligence comes to Apple Vision Pro in April

    75 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  6. Maria Montessori

    75 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  7. Reflections on Palantir

    75 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  8. Catgrad: A categorical deep learning compiler

    75 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  9. Nontraditional Red Teams

    75 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  10. Voters were right about the economy

    75 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  11. Musk aides gain access to sensitive Treasury payment system

    75 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  12. AlgoMIDI – A Mathematical 'Music Studio'

    75 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  13. Grok 3 claims its system prompt includes censorship about Musk/Trump

    75 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  14. The Job Market Is Frozen

    75 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  15. The HP-35: Consumer Electronics, an Origin Story

    75 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  16. Fiwix: Small Unix-Like Kernel

    75 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  17. Oklch in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL (2024)

    74 points • comment • feb 17, 2025

  18. Zeroperl: Sandboxing Perl with WebAssembly

    74 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  19. The Recombobulation Area (2023)

    74 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  20. Thank You Bootstrap 1

    74 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  21. Alabama police department put on leave after grand jury recommends its abolition

    74 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  22. Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'

    74 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  23. Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

    73 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  24. New California bill might block the "AI did it" defense in civil cases

    73 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  25. Show HN: Prompting LLMs in Bash scripts

    73 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  26. Catalytic computing taps the full power of a full hard drive

    73 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  27. Island residents are still dealing with the fallout of exploded Starship

    73 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  28. I'm starting to suspect my work is incompatible with a full-time academic job

    73 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  29. News from Scroll 5

    73 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  30. Science of Microwave Ovens (2016)

    73 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  31. Hacked on Stripe–$41K Gone, No Real Help from Support. What Now?

    73 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  32. Show HN: Modest – musical harmony library for Lua

    72 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  33. Statement or eyesore? Japan's divisive brutalist buildings – in pictures

    72 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  34. It is time to standardize principles and practices for software memory safety

    72 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  35. Why does Mill use Scala?

    72 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  36. Automating the Vim Workplace (2020)

    72 points • comment • feb 09, 2025

  37. Agent-Less System Monitoring with Elixir Broadway

    72 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  38. Mapping Antarctica’s hidden ice-free lands: a blueprint for conservation

    72 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  39. When AI thinks it will lose, it sometimes cheats, study finds

    72 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  40. Despite sticker prices, the real cost of getting a degree has been going down

    72 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  41. Google removed 2.36M apps from Google Play using AI threat detection

    72 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  42. Put a data center on the moon?

    72 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  43. Gaining Years of Experience in a Few Months

    72 points • comment • feb 16, 2025

  44. Social media platforms are removing vital info on reproductive health

    72 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  45. I pulled data on 1378 restaurants from Google Maps to rank them in order

    72 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  46. Linus on Rust and the Kernel DMA Layer

    72 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  47. Petition to Remove the Canadian Government from Twitter

    72 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  48. FDA staff reviewing Musk's Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings

    71 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  49. Bouncing Beholder, my winning JS1K entry (2012)

    71 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  50. Math Academy, part 1: My eigenvector embarassment

    71 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  51. AI-generated Answers experiment on Stack Exchange sites

    71 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  52. The New York Times Has Spent $10.8M in Its Legal Battle with OpenAI So Far

    71 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  53. 'The Licensing Racket’ Review: There's a Board for That

    71 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  54. Show HN: A no-build fullstack SSR TypeScript web framework

    71 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  55. Show HN: Heap Explorer

    71 points • comment • feb 06, 2025

  56. Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (February 2025)

    71 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  57. Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?

    71 points • comment • feb 22, 2025

  58. USAID funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts

    71 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  59. A story about USB floppy drives (2004)

    71 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  60. Hackers leak cop manuals for departments after breaching major provider

    70 points • comment • feb 12, 2025

  61. Obsidian is now free for work

    70 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  62. "Test your adblocker" websites can harm users and the adblocker ecosystem

    70 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  63. Coral USB Accelerator with Google's Edge TPU

    70 points • comment • feb 18, 2025

  64. Tetris in PostScript

    70 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  65. Insomnia, Control

    70 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  66. Ask HN: Physics PhD at Stanford or Berkeley

    70 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  67. Directus – real-time REST and GraphQL API of any SQL database

    69 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  68. Are SSDs more reliable than hard drives? (2021)

    69 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  69. Living in your programming environment [pdf]

    69 points • comment • feb 23, 2025

  70. Pyramid structure discovered near Caral Peru

    69 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  71. Launch HN: Pinch (YC W25) – Video conferencing with immersive translation

    69 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  72. The FAA's Real Air Traffic Control Crisis Runs Much Deeper

    69 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  73. Show HN: Chez Scheme txtar port from Go

    69 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  74. GibberLink [AI-AI Communication]

    69 points • comment • feb 25, 2025

  75. Show HN: Perforator – cluster-wide profiling tool for large data centers

    69 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  76. Magnetic field sorting of superconducting graphite particles with Tc>400K (2024)

    69 points • comment • feb 13, 2025

  77. Portland's exploding Liberty Bell (2020)

    69 points • comment • feb 07, 2025

  78. The True Costs of Being on YouTube

    69 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  79. Toyota completes phase 1 construction of futuristic city

    69 points • comment • feb 26, 2025

  80. The Zizians (2020)

    69 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  81. CDC terminates flu vaccine promotion campaign

    69 points • comment • feb 21, 2025

  82. Proposed bill to make it a crime to download DeepSeek in the US

    69 points • comment • feb 02, 2025

  83. Chaplin: Local visual speech recognition (VSR) in real-time

    69 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  84. Collection of one-file C/C++ libraries with no dependencies, primarily for games

    69 points • comment • feb 08, 2025

  85. JPMorgan's $4B delivery of gold adds to fear tariffs will reshape global trade

    69 points • comment • feb 01, 2025

  86. TrailBase: Sub-millisecond open-source application base with Rust, SQLite and V8

    69 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  87. Steam makes its ban on in-game ads explicit

    68 points • comment • feb 10, 2025

  88. Earth Detecting Earth

    68 points • comment • feb 03, 2025

  89. Reimagining Fluid Typography

    68 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  90. Introducing Apple Invites, a new app that brings people together

    68 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  91. Securing edge device systems, including firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways

    68 points • comment • feb 04, 2025

  92. The Plan 9 Foundation

    68 points • comment • feb 20, 2025

  93. Notorious Malware, Spam Host "Prospero" Moves to Kaspersky Lab

    67 points • comment • feb 28, 2025

  94. Prediction Games

    67 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  95. Post-Processing Shaders as a Creative Medium

    67 points • comment • feb 05, 2025

  96. The San Francisco stadium that fog killed

    67 points • comment • feb 15, 2025

  97. We in-housed our data labelling

    67 points • comment • feb 27, 2025

  98. Associated Press Barred from Oval Office for Not Using 'Gulf of America'

    67 points • comment • feb 11, 2025

  99. National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce

    67 points • comment • feb 19, 2025

  100. The DOS 3.3 sys.com bug hunt

    67 points • comment • feb 24, 2025